Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic

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Half-title Title page Copyright information Dedication Table of contents Preface List of abbreviations Frontispiece Introduction Part I The role of oratory in Roman politics 1 Oratorical settings and career possibilities The courts The contio The senate Oratorical settings and career moves 2 Other routes to political success Ancestry Wealth Patronage and networks Military career Intangible factors Factors for electoral and political success in context Part II Themes and oratorical careers 3 Tribunician oratory and family inheritance Stepping onto the political scene: Gaius’ early career Emulation and innovation: the first tribunate Oratorical competition and fading popularity: the second tribunate Gaius’ final speech Conclusion 4 Politics behind the scenes The returning general and the rhetoric of self-praise Oratory in the face of opposition The politics of ambiguity and abstention Conclusion 5 The oratorical springboard The young prosecutor A friend of the people Towards the consulship The choice of career The oratorical springboard 6 The oratory and career of Piso Caesoninus Piso’s early career: the power of ancestry The ambitious consul in Epicurean clothes The average orator? The moderate and moderating censor The senior consular after the Ides Conclusion 7 Powerful profiling Early career Establishing a career and persona The great filibusterer Fame and electoral defeat The approaching civil war and second electoral defeat Conclusion: Cato’s public profile 8 Career-making in a time of crisis From quaestor to consul Consul Proconsul Conclusion Conclusion Appendix 1: Gaius Gracchus’ public speeches Appendix 2: Pompeius’ public speeches Appendix 3: Caesar’s public speeches Appendix 4: Piso’s public speeches Appendix 5: Cato’s public speeches Appendix 6: Marcus Antonius’ public speeches Bibliography Index locorum Subject index